Reviews
Life Death Tears Dream
This is the third release by the Vancouver-based ensemble that features Lan Tung on Taiwanese erhu (two-string spiked fiddle), Haiqiong...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: July/2013
Punky Halal
It's been 14 years since French Maghreb-influenced band Les Boukakes first started rocking not just the casbahs but the world...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2013
Shona Ritual Music
The mbira or lamellophone has one of the world's most hypnotic and transcendental sounds. Often called the thumb piano, a...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Pomegranate
Blending Western classical stylistics and compositional techniques with tunes and sonorities from a mainly Mediterranean and Eastern European catchment, Kosmos...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Lady Sings the Balkan Blues
Mostar Sevdah Reunion are a Bosnian institution. Emerging out of the ruins of war-torn Bosnia in 1998, tending the traditions...
Reviewed by Robert Rigney in issue: March/2023
Bold As Light
I’m not sure whether meeting Stephan Micus would be a revelatory or mind-numbing experi¬ence. For sure, he must have one...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2011
Control
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley & Zantoda Mark III
Ambolley comes from the coastal twin cities of Sekondi and Takoradi in the western region of Ghana and his impressive...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: November/2019
’94 – Now: Collaborations
Asian Dub Foundation (ADF) celebrate 30 years of their radical history this autumn with this collection of the mightiest of...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: December/2024
